cruizer : Microsoft

Why I totally regret buying a Windows Phone

cruizer — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 11:37:00 GMT

I've been a Windows Phone 7.5 user since January and I love the different phone UI (doesn't look like iOS, nor does it look like Android) and the Facebook/Twitter integration. It's also good that the Windows Phone 7.5 OS feels smooth even...(read more)

The post that stirred up the horNET's nest

cruizer — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:08:00 GMT

I woke up yesterday to find Twitter abuzz with heated tweets by various developers. I live about halfway around the globe from the US so I'm quite used to situations like this, and looking for the news post or product announcement that caused it....(read more)

IronRuby presentation slides and demo code

cruizer — Sun, 24 May 2009 04:54:00 GMT

I have posted the presentation slides (in both PowerPoint 2007 and OpenDocument Presentation formats) and demo code here: [EDIT: added link to SlideShare copy] Presentation slides, PowerPoint 2007 format , OpenDocument Presentation format or view online...(read more)

Concurrency is all the rage in MSDN Magazine

cruizer — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:02:00 GMT

The October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine features lots of articles about parallelism and concurrency. I guess it's all the rage these days! That's what happens when Moore's Law is no longer directly related to more GHz but more CPU cores instead...(read more)

Speaking at Microsoft TechFEST 2008 Singapore

cruizer — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:30:00 GMT

I will be speaking at Microsoft TechFEST 2008 Singapore on October 23rd. The topic? Nothing special -- just same old LINQ Hopefully I can present it in a practical manner that will help developers get up to speed with it. In any case, I think LINQ is...(read more)

Microsoft embraces jQuery

cruizer — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 07:46:00 GMT

I couldn't believe it: read ScottGu's blog post . Finally, Microsoft is getting *it*. No need to fight it, no need to exhibit their traditional NIH mindset and create their own (as they have demonstrated many times, not only in the .NET platform...(read more)

Silverlight 2 Unit Testing: slides and code

cruizer — Sun, 18 May 2008 04:27:00 GMT

It was my first time to join a community event in Singapore during yesterday's Heroes Community Launch and it was a blast! It was also cool to see that of nine presentors during the event, three of us are Pinoys. I definitely am looking forward to...(read more)

Lessons learned in optimising Windows forms apps

cruizer — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:43:00 GMT

Wow, I've been in a black hole for months! The usual excuse -- busy at work on projects. Now that we've gotten our app into production, we're now into firefighting, er... I mean maintenance work for that app. Here are some of the lessons I've...(read more)

Microsoft's Updated "Guidelines for Test-Driven Development"

cruizer — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 03:28:00 GMT

The previous incarnation of that Microsoft article was heavily panned by critics and in a rare move, Microsoft actually pulled it out of its developer web site. I didn't realise it but Microsoft actually replaced it with one written by Jeffrey Palermo...(read more)

My journey (to the dark side) is now complete

cruizer — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:04:00 GMT

Just when you thought I've crossed over to the dark side , I guess it wasn't complete yet. This one takes it further. My peers in the office often express amazement at my Visual Studio color theme. Maybe they weren't born yet during DOS (those...(read more)